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==A '''It is the Power, the Happiness, the Light, the Knowledge, the Bliss, the Love, the Peace that flow from the Divine and Mysterious Power==Grace.''' <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/december-28-1928#p2-p3</ref></center>

There are no words that can express the magnificence of the The Divine Grace: how everything is arranged for things to move as fast as possible. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/agenda/10/november-19-1969#p73</ref>

The Grace''Thy goodness is infinite, the Grace alone can act. That alone can open the way, that alone can do the miracle. <ref>https://incarnatewordwe bow before Thee in gratitude.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p51</ref>''

…but this divine grace, if Flowers speak to us when we may so call itknow how to listen to them, the Mother said. It is not simply a mysterious flow or touch coming from above, but the all-pervading act of subtle and fragrant language. As if to provide a divine presence which we come key to know within as the power of the highest Self and Master of our being entering into the soul and so possessing it that we not only feel it close to us and pressing upon our mortal naturethis language, but live in its law, know that law, possess it as she identified the whole power significances of our spiritualised nature. <ref>https://incarnatewordalmost nine hundred flower.in/cwsa/24/the-integral-perfection#p12</ref>]

Grace is not an invention, it is a fact of spiritual experience. Many who would be considered as mere nothings by the wise ==A Divine and strong have attained by Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p14</ref>Mysterious Power==

 In …but this divine grace, if we may so call it, is not simply a mysterious flow or touch coming from above, but the whole manifestation there is an infinite Grace constantly at work all-pervading act of a divine presence which we come to bring know within as the world out power of the misery, highest Self and Master of our being entering into the obscurity soul and the stupidity in which so possessing it that we not only feel it lies. From all time this Grace has been at workclose to us and pressing upon our mortal nature, unremitting but live in its effortlaw, know that law, and how many thousands possess it as the whole power of years were necessary for this world to awaken to the need for something greater, more true, more beautifulour spiritualised nature. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0924/29the-octoberintegral-1958perfection#p11p12</ref> 

 There are really I have said also that the Grace can at any moment act suddenly, but over that one has no words to express control, because it, comes by an incalculable Will which sees things that sense of wonder towards the Gracemind cannot see.... The GraceIt is precisely the reason why one should never despair, —that and also because no sincere aspiration to the Grace is a thing that exceeds all understanding Divine can fail in its clear-sighted goodness...the end.<ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/1029/novemberthe-19divine-1969grace-and-guidance#p84p22</ref> 

 Then there A state of Grace is probably something else beyond prepared in the intellect which alone can give him[Man] individual often behind thick veils by means not calculable by the Light—something beyond his mind and greater than himself—a when the state of Grace that intervenes, comes then the law of a supernormal Light and Will, a help, an opening from aboveGrace itself acts. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p3p4</ref> 

 No matter how great your faith and trust in the divine The Divine Grace, no matter how great your capacity to see it at work in all circumstances, at every moment, at every point in life, you will never succeed in understanding the marvellous immensity of Its Action, and the precision, the exactitude with which this Action is accomplished; you will never cannot be able to grasp to what extent the Grace does everything, is behind everything, organises everything, conducts everything, so that the march forward to the divine realisation may be as swift, as complete, as total explained through words and harmonious as possible, considering the circumstances of the worldmental formulas. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/0814/1the-augustdivine-1956grace#p49p19</ref> 

 The Divine …no matter how great your faith and trust in the divine Grace cannot , no matter how great your capacity to see it at work in all circumstances, at every moment, at every point in life, you will never succeed in understanding the marvellous immensity of Its Action, and the precision, the exactitude with which this Action is accomplished; you will never be explained through words able to grasp to what extent the Grace does everything, is behind everything, organises everything, conducts everything, so that the march forward to the divine realisation may be as swift, as complete, as total and mental formulasharmonious as possible, considering the circumstances of the world.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/1408/the1-divineaugust-grace1956#p19p49</ref> 

Imagine the world as a single whole and, in a certain sense, finite, limited but containing potentially innumerable possibilities of which the combinations are so numerous that they are equivalent to an infinite (you must be careful with words, however; I am very much cramped by words, they do not express exactly what I mean). So, the universe is objectified by the Divine Consciousness, by the Supreme, according to certain determined laws of which we shall speak later. The universe is a single whole, in the sense that it is the Divine—it does not contain the whole of the Divine, but it is as though the Divine deployed Himself so as to objectify Himself; that is the ''raison dAhaṁ tvā sarvapāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ'être'' of the manifestation of the universe. It is as if the divine Consciousness wandered into all divine possibilities following a path it had chosen. Imagine then a multitude of possibles of which all the possible combinations are equivalent to an infinite. The divine Consciousness is essentially free—It wanders therein and objectifies Itself. The path traversed is free in the midst of an infinite multiplicity which is at the same time pre-existent and absolutely undetermined according to the action of the free divine Will. It may be conceived that this Will, being free, is able to change the course of the deployment, change the path and, although everything is pre-existent and consequently inevitable, the road, the path is free and absolutely unexpected. These changes of the route, if one may say so, can therefore change the relations between things and circumstances, and consequently the determinism is changed. This change of the circuit is called "the effect of the Grace"; well, through the aid of the Grace, if the Grace decides it, things can change, the course can be different. Things can change their places and instead of following a certain circuit follow another. A circumstance which, according to a particular determinism, should occur at a certain place ahead, for instance, would instead occur behind, and so on. The relations between things consequently change. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/1-march-1951#p4</ref>

<center>~</center> The Divine Grace is there, ready to act at every moment, but it manifests as one grows out of the Law of the Ignorance into the Law of Light "I will deliver thee from all sin and it is meantevil, do not as an arbitrary caprice, however miraculous often its intervention, but as a help in that growth and a Light that leads and eventually deliversgrieve. "<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2829/philosophicalthe-thoughtdivine-grace-and-yogaguidance#p11p14,p15,p16</ref>

There are these three powers''A: (1) ''The Cosmic Lawcompassion seeks to relieve the suffering of all, of Karma whether they deserve it or what else; (2) the Divine Compassion acting on as many as it can reach through the nets of the Law and giving them their chance; (3) the Divine Grace which acts more incalculably but also more irresistibly than the othersnot. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/sabcl/23/basic-requisites-of-the-path-v#p112</ref>

The Grace does not recognise the right of suffering to exist and abolishes it. <centerref>~https://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/21-december-1966#p2-p5</centerref>

It is a power that is superior to any rule, even to the Cosmic Law—for all spiritual seers have distinguished between the Law and ==Decoding Divine Grace. Yet it is not indiscriminate—only it has a discrimination of its own which sees things and persons and the right times and seasons with another vision than that of the Mind or any other normal Power. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p4</ref>==

 That was the experience: I saw and felt this Compassion working through the meshes of the net, and how the The Divine Grace is all-powerfulthere, meaning that the "Law" isn't an obstacle any longer. I saw this Compassion touching everyone and giving everyone their chance; I understood what he[Sri Aurobindo] really meant when he said that it "gives everyone their chance"—equally, without the slightest distinction of importance or condition or anything, or of state: exactly the same chance ready to all. So thenact at every moment, the result but it manifests as one grows out of this Compassion was to awaken them to the existence Law of the Grace, to make them feel that there is in Ignorance into the universe something like the Grace. And with those who aspire Law of Light and have trustit is meant, not as an arbitrary caprice, the Grace acts immediately—it always actshowever miraculous often its intervention, but with those who have trust it becomes fully effectiveas a help in that growth and a Light that leads and eventually delivers. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0728/decemberphilosophical-7thought-and-1966yoga#p4p11</ref> 

 ''Sri Aurobindo speaks of It is a power that is superior to any rule, even to the influence of Cosmic Law—for all spiritual seers have distinguished between the Divine Compassion Law and the Divine Grace. But what Yet it is not indiscriminate—only it has a discrimination of its own which sees things and persons and the difference between right times and seasons with another vision than that of the two?''The compassion seeks to relieve the suffering of all, whether they deserve it Mind or notany other normal Power.The A state of Grace does is prepared in the individual often behind thick veils by means not recognise calculable by the right mind and when the state of suffering to exist and abolishes itGrace comes then the Grace itself acts. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1629/21the-decemberdivine-1966grace-and-guidance#p2-p5p4</ref>

But itIt makes you sense so clearly that things in themselves don't count. What we call 'things in themselves' are of no true importance! What really counts is the relationship of consciousness to these things. And there's so lovely when a formidable power in this Harmony comes. You know, puttering aboutsince in one instance you touch something and drop or mishandle it, arranging papers, setting a drawer while in order.... It all sings, the other it's so lovely, it works so joyous and luminoussmoothly.Even the most difficult movements are made without difficulty.. so delightfulIt's an unheard-of power! And allWe don't give it importance because it has no grandiose effects, all, allit's not spectacular.... All material thingsYes, all activities, eating, dressing, everything becomes delightful there are indeed states of grace when this harmony one is therein the presence of a great difficulty and suddenly has all the power needed to face it—yes, delightful. Everything works out smoothly, itbut that's so harmonious, there's no frictionsomething else. You see... you see I am speaking of a joyous, luminous Grace manifesting power active in all things, ALL things, even those we normally regard as utterly unimportantordinary life. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/july-18-1961#p63,p6</ref> 

 As soon as you are in contact with It makes , there is not a second in time, not a point in space, which does not show you sense so clearly that things in themselves don't count. What we call 'things in themselvesdazzlingly'' are this perpetual work of no true importance! What really counts is the relationship Grace, this constant intervention of consciousness to these thingsthe Grace. And there's a formidable power .. If one were in union with thisGrace, since in if one instance you touch something and drop or mishandle itsaw It everywhere, while in the other it's so lovely, it works so smoothly. Even the most difficult movements are made without difficulty. It's an unheard-one would begin living a life of power! We don't give it importance because it has no grandiose effects, it's not spectacular. Yesexultation, there are indeed states of grace when one is in the presence of a great difficulty and suddenly has all the -power needed to face it—yes, but that's something else. I am speaking of a power active in ordinary lifeinfinite happiness. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0208/july1-18august-19611956#p64p50,p51</ref> 

"If one were in union with this =Why Divine Grace, if one saw It everywhere, one would begin living a life of exultation, of all-power, of infinite happiness. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/8-august-1956#p38</ref>Matters?=

=Why It is only the Divine 's Grace Matters=that can give peace, happiness, power, light, knowledge, beatitude and love in their essence and their truth. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace#p21</ref><center>~</center>The complete consecration is undoubtedly not an easy matter, and it might take an almost indefinitely long time if you had to do it all by yourself, by your own independent effort. But when the Divine's Grace is with you it is not exactly like that. With a little push from the Divine now and then, a little push in this direction and in that, the work becomes comparatively quite easy. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/surrender-self-offering-and-consecration#p1</ref><center>~</center>The boon that we have asked from the Supreme is the greatest that the earth can ask from the Highest, the change that is most difficult to realise, the most exacting in its conditions. It is nothing less than the descent of the supreme Truth and Power into Matter, the supramental established in the material plane and consciousness and the material world and an integral transformation down to the very principle of Matter. Only a supreme Grace can effect this miracle. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/12/integral-yoga#p97</ref>

==Grace and StrengthSaves== Strength, if it is spiritual, is a power for spiritual realisation; a greater power is sincerity; the greatest power of all is Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p14</ref> ==Grace and Justice== It is the Divine Grace that must be prayed for―if justice were to manifest, very few would be those who could stand in front of it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace#p2</ref>

 The In failure as well as in success, the Divine 's Grace alone has the power to intervene and change the course of Universal Justice...Without the ceaseless intervention of Your [Divine’s] Grace, who would not often times have come under the merciless blade of the Law of Universal Justiceis always there. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p4,p7p25</ref> 

 "Who can stand before You, O Lord, and say in all sincerity: 'I have never made a mistake'? How many times in Man is a day we commit faults against Your work, and always Your mass of imperfections—it is only by the divine Grace comes to efface them!'' that he reaches the Divine. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0528/18religion-novemberand-1953yoga#p13p6</ref> 

==Grace and KarmaJustice== Completely, the Divine Grace completely contradicts Karma; you know, It makes it melt away like butter that's put in the sun. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/3-june-1953#p24</ref>

The difference between knowledge ==Grace and ignorance is a grace of the Spirit; the breath of divine Power blows where it lists and fills today one and tomorrow another with the word or the puissance. If the potter shapes one pot more perfectly than another, the merit lies not in the vessel but the maker. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-master-of-the-work#p12</ref>Love==

=How to Receive ''Q.Are Divine Love and Grace=the same thing?''

==Be Worthy ''A:''Essentially, all things are the same. In its essence everything is the same, it is a phenomenon of consciousness; but Love can exist without Grace and Grace can exist without Love. But for the Divine human consciousness all manifestation of Grace==is a manifestation of the supreme Love, inevitably. Only it goes beyond human consciousness. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/24-march-1951#p19,p20</ref>

Who is worthy or unworthy in front of the =How to Receive Divine Grace?All are children of the one and the same Mother.Her love is equally spread over all of them.But to each one She gives according to his nature and receptivity. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace#p23-p26</ref> <center>~</center> The Grace is equally for all. But each one receives it according to his sincerity. It does not depend on outward circumstances but on a sincere aspiration and openness. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace#p29</ref> <center>~</center>=

Fear stems from a sense The supreme Power has descended into the most material consciousness but it has stood there behind the density of inferiority.Howeverthe physical veil demanding before manifestation, before its great open workings can begin, that the conditions of the supreme Grace shall be there , real and effective. And the first condition is a way to that the Truth shall be free from accepted within you entirely and without reserve before it: it is to have faith can be manifested in the Divine Grace material being and to rely on It to protect you in all circumstancesNature. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/students#p35-p36</ref>

 No sadhak ought ever Let us offer our will to indulge thoughts of unfitness and hopelessness—they are quite irrelevant because the Divine Grace; it is not one's personal fitness and worthiness the Grace that makes one succeed, but the Mother's grace and power and the consent of the soul to her grace and the workings of her Forceaccomplishes all. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2914/thefaith-call-andin-the-capacity#p31</ref> ==Shed the Ego== How many blows are needed in life for one to know to the very depths that one is ''nothing'', that one can do ''nothing'' that one ''does not exist'', that one is ''nothing'', that there is no entity without the divine Consciousness -grace-and the Grace. From the moment one knows it, it is over; all the difficulties have gone. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/15-september-1954help#p37p50</ref> 

 Let The Grace is always there, eternally present and active, but Sri Aurobindo says that it is extremely difficult for us offer our will to the Divine Grace; be in a condition to receive it, keep it and make use of what it is the Grace that accomplishes allgives us. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/1416/faith-in17-theoctober-divine-grace-and1960-help1#p50p3</ref> 

Have an absolute trust in ==By Being Aware of the Grace, set aside your little personality and allow Workings of the Divine Grace to act. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/trust-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p27</ref>==

 It People are not aware of the workings of Grace except when there has been some danger, that is , when all seems lost there has been the beginning of an accident or the accident has taken place and they have escaped it. Then they become aware. But never are they aware that if, for instance, a journey or anything whatever, passes without any accident, it is an infinitely higher Grace. That is, the harmony is established in such a way that all nothing can be savedhappen. But that seems to them quite natural. When you have lost confidence in your personal powerpeople are ill and get well quickly, then you should have faith in the Divine Grace. they are full of gratitude; but never do they think of being grateful when they are well; and yet that is a much greater miracle! <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/1405/faith-in-the-divine23-grace-anddecember-help1953#p38p52</ref> 

...to be gratefulSo, never to forget when this wonderful Grace sort of the Supreme who leads each one thing has happened to his divine goal by the shortest waysyou a number of times, you begin to understand that in spite of himselfthe blindness of man and deceptive appearances, his ignorance and misunderstandingthe Grace is at work everywhere, so that at every moment it is the best possible thing that happens in spite of the ego, its protests and its revoltsstate the world is in at that moment. <ref>https://incarnatewordIt is because our vision is limited or even because we are blinded by our own preferences that we cannot discern that things are like this.in/agenda/05/july-15-1964#p1</ref>

When you let things work on their ownThen one lives in the Action and Presence of the Grace a life full of joy, there's... there's EVERYWHERE of wonder, with the feeling of a Consciousness marvellous strength, and at the same time with a Grace that do EVERYTHING trust so that EVERYTHING may go smoothlycalm, and that imbecility is what constantly upsets everything—oddly enough! Self-centered imbecilityso complete, that's right: what Sri Aurobindo called "the old mannothing can shake it any longer." <ref>https://incarnateword.in/agenda/10/november-19-1969#p98</ref>

The true spiritual or psychic vision is this, "Whatever I may be, my soul is a child of the Divine and must reach Grace works for the Divine sooner or later. I am imperfect but seek after the perfection realisation of the Divine in me your aspiration and that not I but the Divine Grace will bring about; if I keep everything is arranged to that, gain the Divine Grace itself will do all." The "I" has to take its proper place here as a small portion and instrument of the Divinemost prompt, something that is nothing without the Divine but with the Grace can be everything that the Divine wishes it to bequickest realisation. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3114/dealingthe-divine-withgrace-hostileand-attacksdifficulties#p55p20-p21</ref>

==Open to the Divine GraceBy Invoking==

And then, if you become aware that it is only ''Q. Does the Grace which can do that, that the situation in which you find yourself, from there intervention of the Grace alone can pull you out, can give you the solution and the strength to come out of it, then, quite naturally an intense aspiration awakes in you, through a consciousness which is translated into an opening. If you call, aspire, and if you hope to get an answer, you will quite naturally open yourself to the Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/15-september-1954#p32</ref>?''

 To practise Yoga implies the will to overcome all attachments and turn to the Divine alone. The principal thing in the Yoga is to trust in However a man may stumble, the Divine Grace at every step, to direct the thought continually to the Divine and to offer oneself till the being opens will be there so long as he aspires for it and the Mother's force can be felt working in the Adharaend lead him through. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3231/thedealing-with-depression-mothersand-gracedespondency#p9p55</ref> 

 Faith is certainly a gift given to us by the Divine Grace. It is like a door suddenly opening upon an eternal truth, through which we can see it, almost touch it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/9-july-1958#p4</ref> ==Faith and Trust in the Divine Grace== The Grace is always there ready to act but you must let it work and not resist its actionequally for all. The But each one condition required is faithreceives it according to his sincerity. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p8</ref>The Divine Grace is always with you It does not depend on outward circumstances but on a sincere aspiration and by your trust you allow its action to be effectiveopenness. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/trust-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p3p29</ref> 

 On the other hand the belief in the Divine and the Grace and Yoga and the Guru etcDo not allow these [of unfitness] ideas to gain on you or even to occupy your mind. It is not _a priori_, because it rests on a great mass of human experience which has been accumulating through by their merit or their effort or the centuries and millenniums as well as capacity they show that men advance in the personal intuitive perception. Therefore it is an intuitive perception which has been confirmed spiritual path, but by their opening to the experience of hundreds divine help and thousands of those who grace. For that you must have tested it before methe confidence that whatever your own weakness, the grace will not fail you. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2831/doubtimperfections-and-faithperiods-of-arrest#p22p27</ref> 

 When we trust It is quite true that it [a great wave (or sea) of calm and the constant consciousness of a vast and luminous Reality] is a grace sent and the only return needed for such a grace is acceptance, gratitude and to allow the Power that has touched the consciousness to develop what has to be developed in the Divine's Grace we get an unfailing couragebeing—by keeping oneself open to it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1430/trustexperiences-inof-the-divineself-the-graceone-and-helpthe-infinite#p12p10</ref> 

The Grace will never fail us―such is the faith we must keep constantly in our heart. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-==By Faith and-help#p15</ref>Trust==

 We "At the very moment when everything seems to go from bad to worse, it is then that we must learn to rely only on make a supreme act of faith and know that the Divine Grace and to call for its help in all circumstances; then it will work out constant miraclesnever fail us. " <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/1415/faithcomments-inon-thenew-divine-grace-andyear-helpmessages#p53p9</ref> 

 The Grace will never fail us―such is infinite for him who sincerely trusts the Gracefaith we must keep constantly in our heart. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/trustfaith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p1p15</ref> 

 The ...even if one has no knowledge at all but has trust in the divine Grace , if one has the faith that there is something in the world like the divine Grace, and that this something can answer a prayer, an aspiration, an invocation, then, after making one's mental formation, if one offers it to the help are always there for all who aspire for them Grace and puts one's trust in it, asks it to intervene and their power is limitless when received with has the faith and confidencethat it will intervene, then indeed one has a chance of success. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/1408/faith-in-the-divine-grace8-andaugust-help1956#p7p24</ref> 

 It is only by remaining perfectly peaceful and calm with an unshakable confidence and faith Put your trust in the grace of the One and Divine Grace which has already touched you and opened its door and rely on it for all that you will allow circumstances is to be as good as they can be. ''The very best happens always'' to those who have put their entire trust in the Divine and in the Divine alonecome. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1430/the-divinevalue-graceof-and-difficultiesexperiences#p1p7</ref> 

 In the final analysis everything really depends on Faith is certainly a gift given to us by the Divine Grace and we should look at the future with confidence and serenity. It is like a door suddenly opening upon an eternal truth, progressing at the same time as quickly as through which we cansee it, almost touch it. <ref>https://incarnateword.As in/cwm/14/faith-everything else in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p43</ref> ==Soul’s Aspiration== ascent of humanity, there is the necessity—especially at the beginning—of personal effort. It is not possible thatin some exceptional circumstances, for reasons which completely elude our intelligence, faith may come almost accidentally, quite unexpectedly, almost without ever having been solicited, but the soul's demand for most frequently it is an answer to a higher Truth or yearning, a higher life need, an aspiration, something in the being that is indispensableseeking and longing, even though not in a very conscious and systematic way. Where that is, the Divine Grace whether believed But in or notany case, will intervene. If you believewhen faith has been granted, that hastens and facilitates things; if you cannot yet believewhen one has had this sudden inner illumination, still in order to preserve it constantly in the soulactive consciousness individual effort is altogether indispensable. One must ''hold on'' to one's aspiration faith, ''will justify itself with whatever difficulty and struggle'' one's faith; one must seek it, cultivate it, protect it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2909/bhakti9-yogajuly-and-vaishnavism1958#p22p4,p5</ref> 

 It If one has within him faith in the divine grace, that the divine grace is a question only of aspirationwatching over him, of believing in and that no matter what happens the divine Grace grace is there, watching over him, one may keep this faith all one's life and always; and with this one can pass through all dangers, face all difficulties, and nothing stirs, for you have the faith and letting the Divine work in divine grace is with you. It is an infinitely stronger, more conscious, more lasting force which does not depend upon the conditions of your physical build, does not making a refusaldepend upon anything except the divine grace alone, and hence it leans on the Truth and nothing can shake it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2905/the7-call-and-theoctober-capacity1953#p26</ref> 

 To receive the divine grace, not only must one It is when all seems lost that all can be saved. When you have a great aspiration, but also a sincere humility and an absolute trust. <ref>https://incarnateword.lost confidence in/cwm/16/17-october-1960-1#p5</ref> ==Invoke the Divine Grace== ''Does the intervention of the Grace come through a call?'' When one calls? I think so. Anywayyour personal power, not exclusively and solely. But certainly, yes, if one has then you should have faith in the Divine Grace and an aspiration and if one does what a little child would when it runs to its mother and says: "Mamma, give me this", if one calls with that simplicity, if one turns to the Grace and says "Give me this", I believe it listens. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/0514/18faith-novemberin-1953the-divine-grace-and-help#p38-p39</ref> 

 The Grace What is necessary is always with you; concentrate in your heart with not to listen to what resists, not to believe what contradicts—to have trust, a real trust, a silent mind and confidence which makes you are sure also give yourself fully without calculating, without bargaining. Trust! The trust that says, "Do this, do this for me, I leave it to receive the guidance and the help you aspire forYou. " <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/1409/faith-in-the-divine-grace12-andnovember-help1958#p6p17</ref> 

 A state of Grace is prepared Have an absolute trust in the individual often behind thick veils by means not calculable by the mind Grace, set aside your little personality and when allow the state of Grace comes then the Grace itself actsto act; it will make you do what is needed and everything will be all right. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2914/trust-in-the-divine-grace-and-guidancehelp#p4p27</ref> 

 Gratitude: it It is you who open all the closed doors and let the Grace which saves penetrate deeply. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/gratitude#p1</ref>Yes, faith proportion to our trust in the Divine that the Divine Grace always brings about its interventioncan act for us and help. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faithtrust-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p9p4</ref> 

 All depends on the intensity of The Grace and the help are always there for all who aspire for them and their power is limitless when received with faith and the firmness of the right attitudeconfidence. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p4</ref> ==Call of the Divine Grace== Call of the Divine Grace: not noisy but persistent and very perceptible to those who know how to listen. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace#p31</ref> ==Keep the Divine Grace== The Grace is always there, eternally present and active, but Sri Aurobindo says that it is extremely difficult for us to be in a condition to receive it, keep it and make use of what it gives us. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/17-october-1960-1#p3p7</ref> 

 It is quite true that it [A great wave (or sea) of only by remaining perfectly peaceful and calm with an unshakable confidence and faith in the constant consciousness of a vast and luminous Reality] is a grace sent and the only return needed for such a grace is acceptance, gratitude and to Divine Grace that you will allow the Power that has touched the consciousness circumstances to develop what has be as good as they can be. ''The very best happens always'' to be developed those who have put their entire trust in the Divine and in the being—by keeping oneself open to itDivine alone. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3014/experiences-of-the-selfdivine-the-onegrace-and-the-infinitedifficulties#p10p1</ref> 

Besides I have always seen that there has been really a long unobserved preparation before ==By Shedding the Grace intervenes and, also, after it has intervened one has still to put in a good deal of work to keep and develop what one has got—as it is in all other things—until there is the complete siddhi. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p18</ref>Ego==

 If How many blows are needed in life for one has within him faith in to know to the divine grace, very depths that the divine grace one is watching over him''nothing'', and that no matter what happens the divine grace is there, watching over him, one may keep this faith all can do ''nothing'' that one's life and always; and with this 'does not exist'', that one can pass through all dangers, face all difficulties, and is ''nothing stirs'', for you have the faith and the divine grace that there is with you. It is an infinitely stronger, more conscious, more lasting force which does not depend upon the conditions of your physical build, does not depend upon anything except no entity without the divine grace alone, Consciousness and hence it leans on the Truth and nothing can shake it. <ref>https://incarnatewordGrace.in/cwm/05/7-october-1953#p26</ref> ==Be Aware of From the Divine Grace’s Works== It is not indispensable that the Grace should work in a way that the human mind can understand, it generally doesn't: it works in its own "mysterious" way. At first usually moment one knows it works behind the veil, preparing things, not manifesting. Afterwards it may manifest, but the sadhak does not understand very well what is happening. Finally, when he is capable of it, he both feels and understands or at least begins to do so. Some feel and understand from the first or very earlyover; but that is not all the ordinary casedifficulties have gone. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2906/the15-divine-grace-andseptember-guidance1954#p8p37</ref> 

 People are not aware It's narrowness of the workings of Grace except when there has been some dangerconsciousness, that isit's division. When you let things work on their own, when there has been the beginning of an accident or the accident has taken place and they have escaped it's.. Then they become aware. But never are they aware that if, for instance, there's EVERYWHERE a Consciousness and a journey or anything whatever, passes without any accident, it is an infinitely higher Grace. That is, the harmony is established in such a way that nothing can happen. But do EVERYTHING so that seems to them quite natural. When people are ill and get well quicklyEVERYTHING may go smoothly, they are full of gratitude; but never do they think of being grateful when they are well; and yet that imbecility is a much greater miraclewhat constantly upsets everything—oddly enough! Self-centered imbecility, that's right: what Sri Aurobindo called "the old man." <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0510/23november-december19-19531969#p52p98</ref> 

When you are in a particular set of circumstances and certain events take place, these events often oppose your desire or what seems best to you, and often you happen to regret this and say to yourself, "Ah! how good it would have been if it were otherwise, if it had been like this or like that", for little things and big things.... Then years pass by, events are unfolded; you progress, become more conscious, understand better, and when you look back, you notice―first with astonishment, then later with a smile―that those very circumstances which seemed to you quite disastrous or unfavourable, were exactly the best thing that could have happened to you to make you progress as you should have. And if you are the least bit wise you tell yourself, "Truly, the divine Grace is infinite." So, when this sort of thing has happened to you a number of times, you begin to understand that in spite of the blindness of man and deceptive appearances, the Grace is at work everywhere, so that at every moment it is the best possible thing that happens in the state the world is in at that moment. It is because our vision is limited or even because we are blinded by our own preferences that we cannot discern that things are like this. But when one begins to see it, one enters upon a state of wonder which nothing can describe. For behind the appearances one perceives this Grace―infinite, wonderful, all-powerful―which knows all, organises all, arranges all, and leads us, whether we like it or not, whether we know it or not, towards the supreme goal, that is, union with the Divine, the awareness of the Godhead and union with Him. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/8-august-1956#p42-p44</ref> ==No Insistence By Not Insisting on the Grace==

 Your thesis was, "Once I have said also that want God, God must manifest to me, come to me, at least give glimpses of himself to me, the Grace real solid concrete experiences, not mere vague things which I can't understand or value. God'cans Grace must answer my call for it, whether I yet deserve it or not—or else there is no Grace." God'' at any moment act suddenlys Grace may indeed do that in certain cases, but over that one has where does the "must" come in? If God must do it, it is no controllonger God's Grace, because it comes by but God's duty or an incalculable Will which sees things that the mind cannot seeobligation or a contract or a treaty. It is precisely The Divine looks into the reason why one should never despair,—that heart and also because no sincere aspiration removes the veil at the moment which he knows to be the Divine can fail in the endright moment to do it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divinebhakti-graceyoga-and-guidancevaishnavism#p22p12</ref> 

 Your thesis wasGrace may sometimes bring undeserved or apparently undeserved fruits, "Once I want God, God must manifest to me, come to me, at least give glimpses of himself to me, the real solid concrete experiences, not mere vague things which I but one can't understand or value. God's demand Grace must answer my call for as a right and privilege—for then it, whether I yet deserve it or not—or else there is no would not be Grace." GodAs you have seen one can's Grace may indeed do t claim that in certain cases, but where does one has only to shout and the "answer must" come in? If God must do it, it is no longer God's Grace, but God's duty or an obligation or a contract or . Besides I have always seen that there has been really a treaty. The Divine looks into long unobserved preparation before the heart Grace intervenes and removes the veil at the moment which he knows , also, after it has intervened one has still to be the right moment put in a good deal of work to do keep and develop what one has got—as itis in all other things—until there is the complete siddhi. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/bhaktithe-divine-yogagrace-and-vaishnavismguidance#p12p18</ref> 

==Be By Being Grateful to the Divine Grace== The best possible way is to allow the Divine Grace to work in you, never to oppose it, never to be ungrateful and turn against it—but to follow it always to the goal of Light and Peace and unity and Ananda. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p24</ref>

 Let us give ourselves without reserve ...to be grateful, never to forget this wonderful Grace of the Supreme who leads each one to his divine goal by the Divineshortest ways, so best shall we receive in spite of himself, his ignorance and misunderstanding, in spite of the Divine Graceego, its protests and its revolts. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/1405/thejuly-divine15-grace1964#p28p1</ref> 

 Gratitude: A loving recognition of The best possible way is to allow the Divine Grace received from to work in you, never to oppose it, never to be ungrateful and turn against it—but to follow it always to the Divinegoal of Light and Peace and unity and Ananda. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1429/gratitudethe-divine-grace-and-guidance#p2-p3p24</ref> 

One must have a great purity and a great intensity in one’s self-giving, and that absolute trust in the supreme wisdom of the divine Grace, that It knows better than we do what is good forus, and all that. Then if one offers one’s aspiration to It, truly gives it with enough intensity, the results are marvellous. But one must know how to see them, for when things are realised mostpeople find it absolutely natural, they don’t even see why and how it has happened, and they tell themselves, “Yes, naturally it had to be like that.” So they lose the joy of...the joy of gratitude,because, in the last analysis, if one can be filled with gratitude and thanksgiving for the divine Grace, it puts the finishing touch, and at each step one comes to see that things are exactly what they had to be and the best that could be. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/13-july-1955#p44</ref> 

''What is the way to accept the Grace with gratitude?A:''Ah! First of all you must feel the need for it.

Ah! First of all you must feel the need for it.This is the most important point. It is to have a certain inner humility which makes you aware of your helplessness without the Grace, that truly, without it you are incomplete and powerless.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/15-september-1954#p28,p29,p30</ref><center>~</center>

=How to Walk the Path of Sadhana?= ==Be Ready with Full Consent== The Divine Grace and Power can do everything, but with the full assent of the sadhak. To learn to give that full assent is the whole meaning of the sadhana. It may take time either because of ideas in the mind, desires in the vital or inertia in the physical consciousness, but these things have to be and can be removed with the aid or by calling in the action of the Divine Force. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p11</ref>

 Without Psychic life in the universe is a work of the divine Grace. Psychic growth is a work of the divine Grace and the ultimate power of the Divine nothing can psychic being over the physical-being will also be done, but for a result of the full divine Grace . And the mind, if it wants to manifest the sadhak must make himself readybe at all useful, has only to remain very quiet, as quiet as it can, because if it meddles in it, it is sure to spoil everything. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2907/the-divine-grace9-andfebruary-guidance1955#p10p22</ref> 

There is nobody who can go on in his own strength or by right of his fitness to the goal of the sadhana. It is only by the Divine Grace and reliance ==By Reliance on the Divine Grace that it can be done. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-call-and-the-capacity#p29</ref>==

The complete consecration is undoubtedly not an easy matter, and it might take an almost indefinitely long time if you had to do it all by yourself, by your own independent effort. But when the Divine's Grace is with you it is not exactly like that'Q. With a little push from the Divine now and thentouch of the divine Grace, a little push in this direction and in that, the work becomes comparatively quite easy. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/surrender-self-offering-and-consecration#p1</ref>how do difficulties become opportunities for progress?''

 Vital difficulties are If you have had even a second's contact with the Grace—that marvellous Grace which carries you along, speeds you on the path, even makes you forget that you have to hurry—if you have had only a second's contact with that, then you can strive not to forget. And with the common lot candour of every human being and a child, the simplicity of every sadhak—they a child for whom there are no complications, give yourself to be met with a quiet determination that Grace and confidence in the Divine’s Gracelet it do everything. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3109/the12-difficulties-ofnovember-yoga1958#p13p16</ref> 

Face In other words: no ambition, no vanity, no pride. A sincere self-giving, a sincere humility, and one is sheltered from all these things quietly and firmly with perseverance in the endeavour of the sadhanadanger. Trust firmly in the Divine Grace and the Divine Grace will not fail There youare, this is what I call being greater than one's experience. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2908/the22-divine-grace-andaugust-guidance1956#p23p24,p25</ref> 

 And such things come to youIn any case, not because you are unlucky or because your lot the only thing which is really effective is not a happy one, but because, on to will what the contraryDivine wills, and to keep an unshakable confidence in the divine Consciousness and supreme compassion of the divine Divine Grace take your resolution seriously and allow , for through that it is always the best that happens; not the circumstances best according to become a touchstone on your way, to see whether your resolution is sincere and whether you are strong enough human ideas but the best according to face the difficultiessupreme Truth. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/0314/the-elephantdivine-grace-and-difficulties#p16p9-p10</ref> 

 One cannot be perfect in discrimination at once or in rejection eitherAnd there is no other remedy. It's the only remedy, for ''everybody'' without exception. The one indispensable To all those who suffer, it is the same thing that has to be said: all suffering is to go on trying sincerely till there comes the full successsign that the surrender is not total. So long as there Then, when you feel in you a "bang", like that, instead of saying, "Oh, this is bad" or "This circumstance is complete sinceritydifficult, " you say, "My surrender is not perfect." Then it's all right. And then you feel the Divine Grace will be there that helps you and leads you, and assist at every moment you go on the way.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2915/sincerity11-may-1967#p20p3</ref> 

Yes, the solution ==By Peace==It is certainly the Divine Grace—it comes of itself, intervening suddenly or only by remaining perfectly peaceful and calm with an increasing force when all is ready. Meanwhile it is there behind all the struggles, unshakable confidence and "faith in the unconquerable aspiration for the light" of which Divine Grace that you speak is the outward sign that it will interveneallow circumstances to be as good as they can be. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3114/the-difficultiesdivine-ofgrace-humanand-naturedifficulties#p32p1</ref> 

 It is in actionKeep a ''cool head'', in effortstrong and ''very quiet nerves'', in the march forward that repose must be found, the true repose of and a ''complete trust '' in the divine Divine Grace, of the absence of desires, of victory over egoism. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/0914/20trust-in-the-divine-grace-marchand-1957help#p11p20</ref> 

 Through this apparent chaos a new Whatever happens we must remain quiet and better order is being formed. But to see it one must have faith in trust the Divine 's Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faithtrust-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p33p18</ref> 

Everything should be for the sake of the Divine, this also. As for leaving the result =How Not to the Divine, it depends on what you mean by the phrase. If it implies dependence on Distance from the Divine Grace and equanimity and patience in the persistent aspiration, then it is all right. But it must not be extended to cover slackness and indifference in the aspiration and endeavour. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p13</ref>=

 I ask you to have faith in the Divine, in Our senses can discover no visible presence of the Divine Grace, in the truth our intellect can do without any idea of the sadhana, in the eventual triumph its intervention—but it is another experience than that of the spirit over its mental intellect and vital and physical difficulties, in the Path and senses which once it is there will no longer let us escape from the Guru, in the existence of things other than are written in Presence or refuse to see the philosophy of Haeckel intervening Will or Huxley or Bertrand Russell, because if these things are not true, there is no meaning in the YogaGrace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/faiththe-divine-grace-and-guidance#p52p2</ref> 

 The only question is whether there is something behind all Strictly speaking, the anomalies of life which can respond Grace does not withdraw; people make it impossible for themselves to the call and open itself with whatever difficulty till receive it is ready for the illumination of . But you have only to take the Divine Grace—and that something must be not a mental right attitude and vital movement but an inner somewhat which can well be seen by the inner eye. If keep it is there and when it becomes active in front, then so that the Compassion Grace can act, though the full action of the Grace may still wait attending the decisive decision or change; for this may be postponed to a future hour, because some portion or element of the being may still come between, something that is not yet ready to receiveonce more do its saving work. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2917/the17-divine-grace-andjuly-guidance1936#p4p2</ref> 

 Psychic life in The Divine Grace and Power can do everything, but with the universe is a work full assent of the divine Gracesadhak. Psychic growth To learn to give that full assent is a work of the divine Grace and the ultimate power whole meaning of the psychic being over the physical-being will also be a result sadhana. It may take time either because of the divine Grace. And ideas in the mind, if it wants to be at all useful, has only to remain very quiet, as quiet as it can, because if it meddles desires in it, it is sure to spoil everything. <ref>https://incarnateword.the vital or inertia in/cwm/07/9-february-1955#p22</ref> ==Help from the Divine Grace== Then all meditation, all tapasyaphysical consciousness, all means of prayer or mantra must but these things have that as its end to be and it is when one has progressed sufficiently in that that can be removed with the Divine Grace descends and the realisation comes and develops till it is complete. But the moment of its advent is chosen aid or by calling in the wisdom action of the Divine alone and one must have the strength to go on till it arrives; for when all is truly ready it cannot fail to comeForce. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/bhaktithe-divine-yogagrace-and-vaishnavismguidance#p52p11</ref> 

 There is no reason why suffering should be indispensable for making progress. You bring the suffering on yourself by the wrong ideas of the mind and by the revolts of the vital. The only help one can Mother's grace and should receive love are there, but the mind refuses to recognise it. If there is that of confidence, if the Grace which formulates itself in everyone according mind and vital consent to his own needsurrender and have full faith and reliance, then there may be difficulties but there is no suffering. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0931/24resistances-septembersufferings-and-1958falls#p19p15</ref> 

 For Face all these [''inner disturbances''] things quietly and firmly with perseverance in the endeavour of the sadhana. Trust firmly in the Divine Grace to have a perfect and total result of its action, the faith must be ''total and perfectDivine Grace will not fail you.'' <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1429/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-helpguidance#p10p23</ref> 

 The divine Consciousness works alwaysYou must realise that these moods are attacks which should be rejected at once—for they repose on nothing but suggestions of self-distrust and incapacity which have no meaning, everywhere and in since it is by the same way. The divine Grace is active everywhere, of the Divine and in all circumstances in the same way. And so on. But according to aid of a Force greater than your personal attitudeown, you create within yourself the conditions for receiving what is done or not receiving it. And trust—indeed, trust in the Truth, trust in the Grace, trust in the divine Knowledge—this puts you in by personal capacity and worth that state of receptivity in which you can receive these thingsattain the goal of the sadhana. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/25-november-1953#p6</ref> ==Deal with Obstacles== When physical disorder comes, one must not be afraid; one must not run away from it, must face it with courage, calmness, confidence, with the certitude You have to remember that illness is a _falsehood_ and that if one turns entirelydissociate yourself from these suggestions when they come, in full confidence, with a complete quietude never accept or yield to the divine grace, it will settle in these cells as it establishes itself in the depths of the being, and the cells themselves will share in the eternal Truth and Delightthem. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1529/fearthe-call-and-illnessthe-capacity#p7p23</ref> 

 All the circumstances of life are arranged to teach us that, beyond mind, faith in the Divine Grace gives us the strength to go through all trials, to overcome all weaknesses and find the contact with the Divine Consciousness which gives us not only peace and joy but also physical balance and good health.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-382#p2</ref> [Based on Aphorism 382—For nearly forty years behind the wholly good I was weakly in constitution; I suffered constantly from the smaller and the greater ailments and mistook this curse for a burden that Nature had laid upon me. When I renounced the aid of medicines, then they began to depart from me like disappointed parasites. Then only I understood what a mighty force was the natural health within me and how much mightier yet the Will and Faith exceeding mind which God meant to be the divine support of our life in this body.]<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-382#p2</ref>  

''In the present growing conflict what should be our attitude?A:'' Faith and total confidence in the Divine's Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p35-p36</ref> 

The only thing I can suggest about diseases is to call down peace. Keep the mind away from the body by whatever means—whether by reading Sri Aurobindo's books or meditation. It is in this state that the Grace acts. And it is the Grace alone that cures. The medicines only give a faith to the body. That is 'A:'' Tests? Not at all. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/peace-and-quiet-faith-and-surrender#p10</ref> 

 Once moreYou are given an illness purposely to make you progress? Surely it is not like that. Actually, you may turn the lack thing round and say that there are people whose aspiration is so constant, whose goodwill so total that whatever happens to them they take as a trial on the path to make progress. I knew people who, whenever they fell ill, took that as a proof of faith the Divine Grace to help them to progress. They told themselves: it is a good sign, I am going to find out the cause of my illness and I shall make the human mind brings complications necessary progress. I knew a few of this kind and pain where with a quiet faith in they moved on magnificently. There are others, on the contrary, who, far from making use of the thing, let themselves fall flat on the ground. So much the worse for them. But the true attitude when one is ill, is to say: "There is something that is not all right; I am going to see what it is." You must never think that the Divine Guidance all could has purposely sent an illness, for that would truly be a very simple and easy. wicked Divine! <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/1405/faith-in-the-divine-grace22-andjuly-help1953#p11p18,p19,p20</ref> 

 You answer to all the contrary forces, the contrary movements, the attacks, the misunderstandings, the bad wills, with the same smile that comes from full confidence in Have faith. There is no disease which cannot be cured by the Divine Grace. And that is the ''only'' way out, there is no other. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/11cure-by-the-maydivine-1967grace#p3</ref> 

 Do not allow any discouragement The only thing I can suggest about diseases is to come upon you and have no distrust of call down peace. Keep the mind away from the body by whatever means—whether by reading Sri Aurobindo's books or meditation. It is in this state that the Grace acts. And it is the Divine Gracealone that cures. The medicines only give a faith to the body. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2915/peace-and-quiet-faith-and-surrender#p54p10</ref> 

For the Grace to help you, you must fulfil the conditions, and the very first condition is to reject all doubt, however slight. I repeat again: you would do well to read once more, carefully and attentively, the first two chapters of ''The Mother''With .<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/16-july-1936#p2</ref><center>~</center>One is either conscious of the touch power or peace or other force (light, ananda, knowledge, movements of the divine working) or, if not conscious of that, is aware of the results—either of these things is sufficient to show that one is open. To feel the grace descending and yet doubt whether it is not a vital imagination is a folly of the physical mind; a spiritual experience must be accepted as it is; if one questions at every moment whether an experience is an experience or Graceis grace or peace is peace or light is light, how do difficulties become opportunities for one will spend all the time in these useless and fantastic doubts instead of making a quiet and natural progress?''. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-physical-mind-and-sadhana#p26</ref>

''A:'' Yes. This means that it would be going against its work, its own work. The Grace is something that pushes you towards has come; well, it works for the realisation of the goal to be attainedtruth. Do not try to judge If it accepts the conditions laid upon it by your mindthe falsehood, it can no longer do anything. Of this, you know, I could give you will not get anywherecountless examples—of people who insist that things should happen in a particular way as far as they are concerned. They implore, at times even demand that things should be like that; and what they ask for is absolutely contrary to the truth; and if the Grace obeyed their demand, because it would go against its own purpose and defeat its own purpose, that is something formidable which is not explained through human words or feelings, it would go against its own work and aim. When It comes here to realise the truth; if it obeys the Grace actsfalsehood, it turns its back on truth. And people, you see, very often put the result may or may not be pleasant―it takes no account cart before the horse—most often through ignorance and stupidity; but sometimes it is also through bad will that they insist on having their conditions fulfilled, that they go in for a kind of any human valuebargaining in exchange for their surrender, and they do it may even be a catastrophe from the ordinary .... Yes, many do it unconsciously—I said through ignorance and stupidity. There are others who do it consciously, and superficial point of viewso they want their conditions fulfilled. But They say, "If it is always like this and like that..." And finally they go as far as to say to the Divine, "If you are like this and like that, if you fulfil the best conditions I lay down for you, I shall obey you!" They don't put it in this way because that would be too ridiculous, but they almost constantly do it. You see, they say, "Oh, the individualDivine is like this. It is a blow The Divine does this. The Divine must respond like this." And they continue in this way, and they are not aware that they are quite simply imposing their conceptions and also their desires on what the Divine sends so that progress may ought to be made by leaps and boundsdo. The Grace And so, when the Divine does not do what they want or does not fulfil the conditions they lay down, they say, "You are not the Divine!" (''Laughter'') It is that which makes very simple. "You do not fulfil the conditions I lay down, so you are not the Divine!" But they do it constantly, you march swiftly towards know. So, naturally, if to please people, the realisationDivine Grace were to submit to their demands, it would be working entirely against its own purpose and would destroy its own Work. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/1406/the-divine-grace7-andjuly-difficulties1954#p23p17,p18</ref> 

Man If each time the Power intervenes and brings in the Truth, you turn your back on it and call in again the falsehood that has been expelled, it is a mass of imperfections—it is only by not the divine Grace that he reaches you must blame for failing you, but the falsity of your own will and the Divine. <ref>https://incarnatewordimperfection of your own surrender.in/cwsa/28/religion-and-yoga#p6</ref>

 For those who have given themselves Insincerity seems to be an incurable defect which nullifies the Divine each difficulty that confronts them is the assurance working of a new progress and thus must be taken as a gift from the Gracein a being. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/1417/the-divine-grace2-andjune-difficulties1965#p17p4</ref> 

It is certain that for someone who has desires, when his desires are not satisfied, it is a sign that the Divine =Living in Grace is with him and wants, through experience, to make him progress rapidly, by teaching him that a willing and spontaneous surrender to the Divine Will is a much surer way to be happy in peace and light than the satisfaction of any desire. [Based on Aphorism 175 – Because a good man dies or fails and the evil live and triumph, is God therefore evil? I do not see the logic of the consequence. I must first be convinced that death and failure are evil; I sometimes think that when they come, they are our supreme momentary good. But we are the fools of our hearts and nerves and argue that what they do not like or desire, must of course be an evil! ] <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-175#p5</ref>=

<center>~</center> There is no reason why suffering should be indispensable for making progress. You bring the suffering on yourself by the wrong ideas of the mind and by the revolts of the vital. The Mother's grace and love are there, but the mind refuses to recognise it. If there is confidence, if the mind and vital consent to surrender and have full faith and reliance, then there may be difficulties but there is no suffering. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/resistances-sufferings-and-falls#p15</ref>==Guru’s Grace==

 When the Grace acts on the individualThe Guru's touch or grace may open something, it gives to each but the maximum position according difficulties have always to what he be worked out still. What is and what he has realized.And then, true is that if there is a super-gracecomplete surrender which implies the prominence of the psychic, these difficulties are no longer felt as it were, which works in a few exceptional cases, which places you not according to what you are burden or obstacle but according to what you are to become, only as superficial imperfections which means that the universal cosmic position is ahead working of the individual's progress.And it is then that you should keep silent and fall on your kneesgrace will remove. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0129/julythe-2-1958guru#p14-p16p28</ref> 

Leave all care to the Divine's ==Krishna’s Grace, including your progress, and you will be in peace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/trust-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p23</ref>==

 Later—much later—one dayKrishna's Grace calls whom it wills to call without any determining reason for the choice or rejection, looking backhis mercy or his withholding or at least delaying of his mercy, we may see or else he calls the hearts that are ready to vibrate and leap up at his call—and even there he waits till the moment has come. To say that everything it does not depend on outward merit or appearance of fitness is no doubt true; the something that happenedwas ready to wake in spite, it may be, of many hard layers in which it was enclosed, even what seemed may be something visible to Krishna and not to us . It was there perhaps long before the worstflute began to play, but he was busy melting the hard layers so that the heart in its leap might not be pressed back by them when the awakening notes came. The Gopis heard and rushed out into the forest—the others did not—or did they think it was only some rustic music or some rude cowherd lover fluting to his sweetheart, not a call that learned and cultured or virtuous ears could recognise as the call of the Divine Grace to make us advance on the way...? <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0929/9bhakti-yoga-julyand-1958vaishnavism#p8p54</ref> 

A single instant, a single impulse of deep and true love, a single minute of deep communion with the divine ==Mother’s Grace brings you much closer to the goal than all possible explanations. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/agenda/12/april-17-1971#p113</ref>==

==Surrender to Who is worthy or unworthy in front of the Divine Grace==?

When, in your life, you meet with a hardship, take it as a Grace from All are children of the Lord one and, indeed, it will become so. <ref>https://incarnatewordthe same Mother.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace-and-difficulties#p3</ref>

<center>~</center> In any case and whatever happens, always consider events as a gift from the Divine Grace which Her love is leading you by swift paths towards the spiritual goal equally spread over all of your lifethem. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace-and-difficulties#p6</ref>

 The Divine does not want human beings Mother's grace is there always; open yourself to suffer, but, it in their ignorance, human beings react in such a way that they bring suffering upon themselves. In peace, quietness quietude and surrender is the only solutionconfidence. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1432/the-divinemothers-grace-and-difficulties#p13p3</ref> 

All depends on what you want. If you want Yoga, take _all_ that happens as the expression of the Divine Grace leading you towards your goal, ''A:'' Both general and try to understand the lesson that circumstances givespecial. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1432/the-divinemothers-grace#p17-and-difficulties#p15p18</ref> 

''A:'' When difficulties besiege youthey descend, know that it is by the Divine Grace is with yousoul's aspiration and the Mother's grace.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1432/the-divinemothers-grace#p1-and-difficulties#p19p2</ref> 

People believe ''A:'' In that case everybody might say that all my difficulties must disappear at once, I must attain to perfection immediately and without difficulties, otherwise it proves that the Mother's Grace means making everything smooth for all your life. It is not true.The Grace works for the realisation of your aspiration and everything is arranged to gain the most prompt, the quickest realisationwith me. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1432/difficulties-and-the-divinemothers-grace-and-difficulties#p20p3-p21p4</ref> 

 If you can tell yourselfNo sadhak ought ever to indulge thoughts of unfitness and hopelessness—they are quite irrelevant because it is not one's personal fitness and worthiness that makes one succeed, "Good, perhaps but the Mother's grace and power and the consent of the soul to her grace and the divine Grace deserves our confidence", simply this, nothing else, you will avoid many difficulties, manyworkings of her Force. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0629/22the-call-decemberand-the-1954capacity#p41p31</ref> 

 In any case, The grace of the only thing which is really effective is to Mother does not withdraw; open yourself and you will what the Divine wills, and to keep an unshakable confidence in the supreme compassion of the Divine Grace, for through that feel it is always the best that happens; not the best according to human ideas but the best according to the supreme Truth. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1432/the-divinemothers-grace-and-difficulties#p9-p10p5</ref> 

 It is only by remaining perfectly peaceful ...a strong will to purification and calm with an unshakable confidence aspiration that does not flag and faith in cease, if the Divine Grace that you will allow circumstances Mother's grace is to be as good as they can bethere and effective. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1432/the-divinemothers-grace-and-difficulties#p1p7</ref> 

 Keep a ''cool head''The effort demanded of the sadhak is that of aspiration, strong rejection and ''very quiet nerves''surrender. If these three are done, the rest is to come of itself by the grace of the Mother and a ''complete the working of her force in you. But of the three the most important is surrender of which the first necessary form is trust'' and confidence and patience in the Divine Gracedifficulty. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1431/trust-in-the-divineresistances-gracesufferings-and-helpfalls#p20p28</ref> 

Whatever happens we must remain quiet and trust ''A:'' The more one develops the psychic, the more is it possible for the Divine's Graceto act. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1432/trust-in-the-divinemothers-grace#p14-and-help#p18p15</ref> 

 And there is no other remedy. It's On the only remedy, whole aspire for ''everybody'' without exception. To all those who suffer, it is the same thing that has to be said: all suffering is growth of the psychic and its control of the rest of the sign that nature and for the surrender is opening, not total. Then, when you feel in you to a "bang"larger vital consciousness, like that, instead of saying, "Oh, this is bad" or "This circumstance is difficult," you say, "My surrender is not perfectbut to the higher consciousness above." Then it's And at all right. And then you feel stages open yourself to the protection of the Grace that helps you Mother and leads you, her grace and you go call onthat for your safeguard and your guidance. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1530/11the-mayintermediate-1967zone#p3p17</ref> 

 Nothing can be compared to the peace To walk through life armoured against all fear, peril and disaster, only two things are needed, two that comes from a total trust in the go always together—the Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/trust-in-of the-divine-grace-Divine Mother and-help#p22</ref> ==Divine Grace Never Fails== The Divine Grace is with us on your side an inner state made up of faith, sincerity and never leaves us even when the appearances are darksurrender. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1432/faith-in-the-divine-grace-andmother-helpiii#p19p1</ref> 

 At each moment The forces [adverse forces] can always be there so long as there is not the transformation of the whole nature. They manifest themselves whenever they can. But if the Presence of our lifethe Mother can always be felt vividly and continuously, then one need not be troubled by their endeavours; one can face and repel them in all circumstances the Grace is there helping us to surmount all difficultiesfull consciousness of the Mother's grace and protection. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1432/faiththe-inmothers-thepresence-divineand-gracethe-andadverse-helpforces#p23p2</ref> 

 In failure as well as ...opening yourself at the same time to the Mother in successyour work, you would receive more constantly the grace and would come to feel her power doing the work through you; you would thus be able to live constantly with the sense of her presence. If on the contrary you allow your fancies or desires to interfere with your work or are careless and negligent, you interrupt the Divine's Grace flow of her grace and give room for sorrow and uneasiness and other foreign forces to enter into you. Yoga through work is always therethe easiest and most effective way to enter into the stream of this sadhana. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1432/faithopening-into-the-divinemother-grace-andin-helpwork#p25p3</ref> 

 The closer more complete your faith, sincerity and surrender, the more will grace and protection be with you come to . And when the grace and protection of the DivineMother are with you, what is there that can touch you or whom need you fear? A little of it even will carry you through all difficulties, obstacles and dangers; surrounded by its full presence you can go securely on your way because it is hers, careless of all menace, unaffected by any hostility however powerful, whether from this world or from worlds invisible. Its touch can turn difficulties into opportunities, failure into success and weakness into unfaltering strength. For the more you live under a shower grace of overwhelming evidence the Divine Mother is the sanction of His immeasurable Gracethe Supreme and now or tomorrow its effect is sure, a thing decreed, inevitable and irresistible. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1432/faith-in-the-divine-grace-andmother-helpiii#p27p3</ref> 

 "At the very moment For when everything seems one begins to go be conscious in the way you have begun and something from bad within raises up all that was hidden, it means that the Mother's grace is on your nature and her force is working and your inner being is aiding the Mother's force to worseget rid of all these things. So you must not be sorrowful or discouraged or fear anything, but look steadily at all that comes out and have the will that it should go completely and for ever. With the Mother's force working and the psychic being supporting the force, all can be done and all will surely be done. This purification is then made just in order that no trouble may occur in the future such as happened to some because they were not purified—in order that we must make the higher consciousness may come into a supreme act of purified nature and the inner transformation securely take place. Go on therefore with faith and know that courage putting your reliance on the Grace will never fail usMother." <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1531/commentsdealing-onwith-newdepression-yearand-messagesdespondency#p9p10</ref> 

''A:'' What do you mean "by the consent"? The Mother's Grace comes down by the Mother's will never fail us―such is . The Purusha can accept or reject the faith we must keep constantly in our heartGrace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1432/faith-in-the-divinemothers-grace-and-help#p15p11,p12</ref> 

Do not allow these ideas to gain on you or even to occupy your mind. ''A:'' It is not the work of the Cosmic Power to maintain the cosmos—transforming it by their merit or their effort or a slow evolution. The greater transformation comes from the capacity they show that men advance in Transcendent above the spiritual pathuniverse, but by their opening to the divine help and grace. For it is that you must have transcendent Grace which the confidence that whatever your own weakness, embodiment of the grace will not fail youMother is there to bring into action. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3132/imperfectionsthe-mothers-universal-action-and-periodsher-ofembodied-physical-arrestaction#p27p4-p5</ref> 

 Have full trust in In her universal action the Mother acts according to the law of things—in her embodied physical action is the Divine's opportunity of a constant Grace and ,—it is for that that the Divine's Grace will help you in all waysembodiment takes place. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1432/trustthe-inmothers-universal-action-theand-divineher-graceembodied-andphysical-helpaction#p14p2</ref> 

Have faith And through her mediation each movement of sincere and unshaken confidence. The confident aspiration towards the Divine Grace will do the rest. <ref>https://incarnateword.calls down in/cwm/14/faith-in-response the-divine-grace-and-help#p49</ref> =How Not to Distance from intervention of the Divine Grace=.

One is either conscious of “Without the power or peace or other force (light, ananda, knowledge, movements ceaseless intervention of the divine working) orYour Grace, if who would not conscious of that, is aware of the results—either of these things is sufficient to show that one is open. To feel often times have come under the grace descending and yet doubt whether it is not a vital imagination is a folly merciless blade of the physical mind; a spiritual experience must be accepted as it is; if one questions at every moment whether an experience is an experience or Grace is grace or peace is peace or light is light, one will spend all the time in these useless and fantastic doubts instead Law of making a quiet and natural progress. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-physical-mind-and-sadhana#p26</ref>Universal Justice?

If behind your devotion and surrender you make a cover “Each one here represents an impossibility to be resolved, but as for your desiresYour Divine Grace all things are possible. Your work will be, egoistic demands and vital insistences, if you put these things in place of the true aspiration or mix them with it and try to impose them on detail as in the Divine Shaktiensemble, then it is idle to invoke the accomplishment of all the impossibilities transformed into divine Grace to transform yourealisations. ”<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3214/the-motherdivine-igrace#p4,p5,p6,p7,p8</ref>

For That was the experience: I saw and felt this Compassion working through the meshes of the net, and how the Grace is all-powerful, meaning that the "Law" isn't an obstacle any longer. I saw this Compassion touching everyone and giving everyone their chance; I understood what he[Sri Aurobindo] really meant when he said that it "gives everyone their chance"—equally, without the slightest distinction of importance or condition or anything, or of state: exactly the same chance to help youall. So then, you must fulfil the conditionsresult of this Compassion was to awaken them to the existence of the Grace, to make them feel that there is in the universe something like the Grace. And with those who aspire and have trust, the Grace acts immediately—it always acts, but with those who have trust it becomes fully effective. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/agenda/07/december-7-1966#p4</ref><center>~</center>The rain is the symbol of the descent of Grace or of the higher consciousness which is the cause of the riches—the spiritual plenty.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/sky-weather-night-and-dawn#p7</ref><center>~</center>This is a very first condition great progress—to be able to receive the higher consciousness while doing external things with the physical mind and body—it shows that the physical consciousness is fast opening. What you feel is to reject indeed the Grace coming down and bringing the higher divine or spiritual consciousness with it with all doubtthat is there. All that (peace, power, however slightAnanda) will develop afterwards more clearly. I repeat again<ref>http: //incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/descent-and-the-lower-nature#p25</ref><center>~</center>Remember also that although here the conditions would be more favourable, yet even at a distance the grace and help can be there with you would do well to read . Only fix yourself on the goal, make the inner choice once morefor all firmly and completely; it is there in your soul, fix it in your mind also. Once there, carefully fixed and attentivelyunalterable, it will prevail over the first two chapters difficulties of your own vital nature and the physical world''The Mother''s opposition, misunderstanding or reluctance. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1731/16the-right-attitude-julytowards-1936difficulties#p2p36</ref><center>~</center>''Q. By what puṇya of ours has the Grace granted to us, mere humans, this rare privilege of coming here at the Divine's Feet?''

If part ''A:''There are many things that have brought it about—a connection in past lives with the Mother and myself, the development of your nature in former births which made it possible for you to seek the being surrendersDivine, but another part reserves itself, follows bhakti in those lives bearing its own way or makes its own conditions, then each time that that happensfruit now—finally, you are yourself pushing the divine Divine Grace away from you. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/theconnections-in-motherpast-ilives#p5p7,p8</ref><center>~</center>''Q. What are the signs of the coming of the Divine Grace? Does the Divine Grace take full charge of the sadhana as soon as the sadhak gives the charge? If not, when will it take full charge?''

''A:''If each time the Power intervenes he gives full charge truly and brings in the Truthreally, you turn your back on it with an absolute sincerity of total surrender and call does not come in again the falsehood that has been expelled, it is not way of the divine Grace . How many can do that you must blame for failing you, but the falsity of your own will and the imperfection of your own surrender? It cannot be done by a word or by taking up a mental posture. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mother-i#p8</ref>

If you call for Calling on God to do everything and save one all the Truth trouble and yet something in you chooses what struggle is false, ignorant a self-deception and undivine or even simply is unwilling to reject it altogether, then always you will be open does not lead to attack freedom and the Grace will recede from youperfection. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mother-i#p9</ref>

All the materialism and positivism in the world have been constructed just because people do not want the divine Grace to come in at all. If you open yourself on they are cured they want to say, “It is I who cured myself”; if they make a progress, they want to think, “It is I who have progressed”; if they organise something, they want to proclaim, “It is I who am organising.” And many, many of those who try to do otherwise, if they look within themselves, would see how seldom spontaneously, sincerely (not as when one says something because one side knows it should be said, or in as one part to the Truth and on another side are constantly opening thinks something because it is the gates fashion to hostile forcesthink like that but spontaneously, sincerely, with all their heart) they ''know''that it is vain to expect that not they who have done the thing, but the divine force. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/5-april-1951#p14</ref><center>~</center>Because if you are sincere,once you have seen—as long as you have not seen, nothing can be said—but the moment you see is the moment when you receive the Grace will abide with , and once you. You must keep have received the temple clean if Grace, you wish no longer have the right to instal there the living Presenceforget it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3210/theaphorism-mother12#p13</ref><center>~</center>Sri Aurobindo is always with us, enlightening, guiding, protecting. We must answer to his grace by a perfect faithfulness. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/eternal-ipresence#p30</ref><center>~</center>Blessings are a manifestation of the divine grace, in favour of an individual or a collectivity. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/blessings#p7p8</ref>

…there is a kind of psychological distance created between the ==Sanskrit words for "Grace and the individual. And due to this psychological distance the individual cannot receive the Grace and feels that It is not there. But It is there, in fact; only, as he has established this distance between the two, he doesn't feel It any longer. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/7-july-1954#p96</ref>"==

==Withdrawal of Stories on Grace==

If there is no personal effort, if the sadhak is too indolent and tamasic to try, why should the Grace act? <ref>https://incarnateword.'''Footprints in/cwsa/31/vigilance-resolution-will-and-the-divine-help#p58</ref>Sand'''

If On one beautiful night, a devotee after worshiping god went to his cozy bed for sleep. It was cold night of winter season and in his quilt he was having deep sleep. He had a very stunning dream; he dreamed that he was walking along the will beautiful beach in the company of his loving God. While he was walking along the individual is towards perditionsea shore, if the scenes of different incidents and situations from his ego becomes hostile to life flashed one by one across the dark sky. He kept moving and watching the Divinedifferent stages of his life, then the Divine is not bound to show him a Grace he does not want at all and kicks atgood times as well as bad ones. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p26</ref>

As for withdrawal After the last scene of Gracelife flashed before him, it might be said that few are those from whom he looked back and noticed the footprints in the Grace withdrawssand. For each scene, but many are those who withdraw from he noticed two sets of footprints in the Gracesand. <ref>https://incarnatewordOne belonged to his own and the other one to his Lord.in/cwsa/29/All of sudden he noticed that at many times along the path of his life; especially at the-divine-grace-very lowest and-guidance#p25</ref>saddest times, there was only one set of footprints.

Strictly speakingThis really disturbed him, so he asked the Grace does not withdraw; people make God about it impossible for themselves . He asked, “God, you said once I decided to receive itfollow you, you’d walk with me all the way. But you have only to take I noticed that during the right attitude saddest and keep itmost troublesome times of my life, there was only one set of footprints. I don’t understand why, so that when I needed you the Grace can once more do its saving work. <ref>https://incarnatewordmost, you were not there for me.in/cwm/17/17-july-1936#p2</ref>”

HereGod laughed and after some silence whispered, for each work given“My precious child, the full strength I love you and Grace are always given at the same time never left you. When you were fine & healthy, I used to do walk besides you. So the work as it has to be doneextra pair of footprints was visible. If When you do not feel the strength and the Grace saw only one set of footprints, it proves was then that there is some mistake in I carried you during your attitudetough times. The faith is lacking or Whenever you have fallen back on old tracks were in difficulties and old creeds and thus problems, I was still protecting you lose all receptivity. ” <ref>https://incarnatewordtinyurl.in/cwm/17com/1-october-1952#p1jsnd6vbz</ref>

Insincerity seems to be an incurable defect which nullifies the working of the Grace in a being. <refcenter>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/2-june-1965#p4</ref> But for one who has faith in the Divine Grace, the return to the Light becomes easy. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/19-august-1953#p31</ref> =Living in Grace= ==Krishna’s Grace== The Grace of Krishna consists for him in Krishna's very lovableness, in his showing of himself to the devotee, in his call, the cry of his flute. That is enough for the heart or, if there is anything more, it is the yearning There are two powers that others or all may hear the flute, see the face, feel all the beauty and rapture of this love. <ref>https://incarnateword.alone can effect in/cwsa/29/bhakti-yoga-and-vaishnavism#p53</ref> Krishna's Grace calls whom it wills to call without any determining reason for their conjunction the choice or rejection, his mercy or his withholding or at least delaying of his mercy, or else he calls the hearts that are ready to vibrate great and leap up at his call—and even there he waits till the moment has come. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/bhakti-yoga-and-vaishnavism#p54</ref> ==Mother’s Grace== The Mother's grace difficult thing which is there always; open yourself to it in quietude and confidence. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mothers-grace#p3</ref> In her universal action the Mother acts according to the law of things—in her embodied physical action is the opportunity aim of our endeavour, a constant Grace,—it is for fixed and unfailing aspiration that that the embodiment takes place. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mothers-universal-action-and-her-embodied-physical-action#p2</ref> ''Is the Mother's Grace always general?''Both general and special. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mothers-grace#p17-p18</ref> ''Is there any law of the working of the Mother's Grace? Why does the Mother in her universal action act according to the law of things, but in her embodied physical by constant Grace?''It is the work of the Cosmic Power to maintain the cosmos calls from below and the law of the cosmos—transforming it by a slow evolution. The greater transformation comes from the Transcendent above the universe, and it is that transcendent supreme Grace which the embodiment of the Mother is there to bring into action. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mothers-universal-action-and-her-embodied-physical-action#p4-p5</ref> ''Do calm and equality come down from above by the Mother's Grace? '' When they descend, it is by the soul's aspiration and the Mother's grace.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mothers-grace#p1-p2</ref> ''Can it be believed that the Mother's Grace is acting even when the difficulties do not disappear?''In that case everybody might say that all my difficulties must disappear at once, I must attain to perfection immediately and without difficulties, otherwise it proves that the Mother's Grace is not with me. <ref>https://incarnatewordanswers.in/cwsa/32/difficulties-and-the-mothers-grace#p3-p4</ref> To walk through life armoured against all fear, peril and disaster, only two things are needed, two that go always together—the Grace of the Divine Mother and on your side an inner state made up of faith, sincerity and surrender. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mother-iiii#p1</ref> ''Is there any law of the working of the Mother's Grace?''The more one develops the psychic, the more is it possible for the Grace to act. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mothers-grace#p14-p15</ref> The great work of the Avatar is to manifest the Divine Grace upon earth. To be a disciple of the Avatar is to become an instrument of the Divine Grace. The Mother is the great dispensatrix—through identity—of the Divine Grace with a perfect knowledge—through identity—of the absolute mechanism of Universal Justice.And through her mediation each movement of sincere and confident aspiration towards the Divine calls down in response the intervention of the Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace#p4,p5</ref> ==Guru’s Grace== If it is the general compassion and grace of the Guru, that, one would think, is always there on the disciple; his acceptance itself is an act of grace and the help is there for the disciple to receive. But the touch of grace, divine grace coming directly or through the Guru is a special phenomenon having two sides to it,—the grace of the Guru or the Divine, in fact both together, on one side and a "state of grace" in the disciple on the other. This "state of grace" is often prepared by a long tapasya or purification in which nothing decisive seems to happen, only touches or glimpses or passing experiences at the most, and it comes suddenly without warning. If this is what is spoken of in Ramakrishna's ["With the Guru's grace all difficulties can disappear in a flash, even as age long darkness does the moment you strike a match."] saying, then it is true that when it comes, the fundamental difficulties can in a moment and generally do disappear. Or at the very least something happens which makes the rest of the sadhana—however long it may take—sure and secure. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-guru#p23</ref> The Guru's touch or grace may open something, but the difficulties have always to be worked out still. What is true is that if there is complete surrender which implies the prominence of the psychic, these difficulties are no longer felt as a burden or obstacle but only as superficial imperfections which the working of the grace will remove. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-guru#p28</ref> It is not the human defects of the Guru that can stand in the way when there is the psychic opening, confidence and surrender. The Guru is the channel or the representative or the manifestation of the Divine, according to the measure of his personality or his attainment; but whatever he is, it is to the Divine that one opens in opening to him, and if something is determined by the power of the channel, more is determined by the inherent and intrinsic attitude of the receiving consciousness, an element that comes out in the surface mind as simple trust or direct unconditional self-giving, and once that is there, the essential things can be gained even from one who seems to others than the disciple an inferior spiritual source and the rest will grow up in the sadhak of itself by the Grace of the Divine, even if the human being in the Guru cannot give it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-guru#p45</refcenter>